New Delhi [India], Feb 22 : Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday announced the integration of Skype and Aadhaar to launch the 'Skype Lite' for low speed mobile internet connections, which will be supported by Aadhaar and will enable technology that can empower people and organisations.

At a keynote address on day two of Future Decoded event, Nadella said that one can chat with 'Aadhaar Verified' users on both the regular Skype app and the new Skype Lite app while interacting for job interviews, government services and other services.

"Your next Skype Job interview might need Aadhaar verification. You can soon enter your Aadhaar number over Skype to verify yourself for an interview. The service can be extended for government services as well," said Nadella.

New Delhi [India], Feb 20 : Microsoft on Monday announced its strategic partnership with Flipkart to provide consumers in India with the best online shopping service.

As a first step in the broad collaboration between the two companies, Flipkart will adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Flipkart Group CEO Binny Bansal announced the news today at an event in Bangalore.

"At Microsoft, we aim to empower every Indian and every Indian organization with technology and key to this is forging strategic partnerships with innovative companies like Flipkart," said CEO Microsoft, Satya Nadella.

New Delhi [India], Feb 20 : India-born chief executive of Microsoft Satya Nadella on Monday said that the company is very excited about the potential of augmented reality along with Microsoft's Cortana's AI offering, which has the capability to do human-level speech recognition.

While speaking at an event in Bangalore here today, the Microsoft chief said "Storage network is fuelling Artificial Intelligence revolution. We are excited about Microsoft Cortana's AI offering that has the capability to do human-level speech recognition."

Nadella, who will engage with India's digital transformation journey with Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, is also keen to pitch Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to users.

Davos : Top technology leaders, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Google's Eric Schmidt and Vodafone's Vittorio Colao, Thursday said they are hugely optimistic about the prospects of digital economy, while Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg cited an Indian story here at the WEF to support her optimism.

In a panel discussion on the potential for digital economy at WEF Annual Meeting, Facebook's COO said there were two brothers in a village in India where they could not go to hospitals, but they joined the technology bandwagon and their lives changed.

"I have an aspiration that in this mobile and cloud world we can empower every Indian individual, citizen of India, every business organisation and institution in India, to be able to thrive with new technology, so I am looking forward to being part of both your 'Digital India' and 'Make in India'," said Nadella.

This was Nadella's second courtesy call to Prime Minister Modi. He had met Prime Minister earlier during his first trip to India after taking charge as the CEO of the top software company.

Earlier in the day, Nadella met Union Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad where he reportedly expressed the US technology giant's interest in partnering with the 'Digital India' and 'Make- in- India' initiatives of the government. (ANI)

New Delhi, Sept. 30 - Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella who was in New Delhi to participate in a Nasscom event said that his company has the most partner friendly approach and scale.

"Today, we have the broadest eco system of partners and the most partner friendly approach and scale," Nadella said while addressing the gathering at the 'mobile-first, cloud-first' event.

"We don't need to go hunt for one deal. We want to have ubiquity of access in partner opportunity," he added.

Beijing: Microsoft plans to close its Windows Live Messenger (MSN) service in Chinese mainland by October 31, amid a crackdown by authorities against the world's largest software firm over anti-monopoly violations.

China launched the anti-monopoly probe against Microsoft alleging that the company may have broken laws regarding compatibility and documentation authentication for its Windows OS and MS Office.

Washington: With its "mobile-first, cloud- first world" concept, Microsoft aims to reinvent productivity to empower every person and organisation on the planet, company's CEO Satya Nadella said on Monday.

"This is a bold ambition with massive opportunity for our partners as we design Microsoft experiences that you can creatively extend for every individual and business on the planet," Nadella said in a letter to Microsoft's partners at the 2014 Worldwide Partner Conference, which kicked off in the US Capital on Monday.

Microsoft is working to offer a broad range of Azure cloud offerings to pick up the pace economic growth and penetrate cloud services in India, the world's biggest software firm's newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella said.

In a recent interview, Hyderabad-based Nadella said India is one of the few countries where Microsoft has the entire range of our operations, with a workforce of more than 6,000 people.

Bangalore/Hyderabad, Feb 6 : Several entrepreneurs have expressed their pride in home universities in the wake of India-educated Satya Nadella becoming the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft.

Microsoft named 22-year company veteran Satya Nadella as its next Chief Executive Officer on February 4, and said co-founder Bill Gates would step down as the chairman and advise the new CEO on technology, marking an epochal change of control at the company that drove the PC revolution.

New Delhi, Feb 5 : Elevation of Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella as chief executive officer of technology giant Microsoft is a reflection of rising India's talent globally and it would inspire professionals across the world, business leaders and experts said.

“It's pretty inspiring. An Indian becoming CEO of Microsoft is an exceptional achievement. We are really proud of it,” said Sachin Bansal, co-founder and chief executive officer of India's largest e-commerce site Flipkart.

He said Nadella's elevation is a reflection of rising Indian professionals influence at the global business sphere.

Washington, Feb 01 : If Microsoft chooses Cloud chief Satya Nadella as outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer's replacement, then the company's little known CFO, Amy Hood, is reportedly going to play a more prominent role at the company.

With Nadella as the CEO, activist shareholder ValueAct Capital, which now has a voice on the board, would press corporate management to increase shareholder value.

Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally and Microsoft's internal executive Satya
Nadella have edged ahead of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop in the race for the
top job at the Redmond-based software giant, new reports suggest.

According to a fresh report published by Bloomberg, Microsoft's board is
now leaning toward Alan Mulally or Satya Nadella, over Elop and other
candidates for the position that would become vacant after current CEO
Steve Ballmer's departure.

While Mulally is currently leading automobile giant Ford Motor, Nadella